Online Safety Act 2021

This section applies to the following services:

a social media service, if there are basic online safety expectations for the service;

a relevant electronic service, if there are basic online safety expectations for the service;

a designated internet service, if there are basic online safety expectations for the service.

The Commissioner may, by legislative instrument, determine that each provider of a service included in a specified class of services is required to:

do whichever of the following is specified in the determination:

prepare a report about the extent to which the provider complied with the applicable basic online safety expectations during the period specified in the determination;

prepare a report about the extent to which the provider complied with one or more specified applicable basic online safety expectations during the period specified in the determination; and

prepare the report in the manner and form specified in the determination; and

give the report to the Commissioner:

within the period specified in the determination; or

if the Commissioner allows a longer period—within that longer period.

The period specified under subparagraph (2)(a)(i) or (ii):

must not be shorter than 6 months; and

must not be longer than 24 months.

The period specified in subparagraph (2)(c)(i) must not be shorter than 28 days after the determination is made.